overpowered

Overly powerful.

Adjective

  1. Overly powerful.
    • The engine seemed overpowered for such a small car.
    • Players complained that some of the characters in the game were overpowered and hard to defeat.
    • Are the 1959 cars put out by the Big 3 overpowered, oversized, overjuiced, over-elaborate, gas-guzzling dinosaurs? […] The motion reads “Resolved That the Big 3’s 1959 Car Models are engineering monstrosities”. - 1959...

    Synonyms: OP overpowerful

    Antonyms: underpowered

Origin

From over- + powered.

Forms

more overpowered most overpowered

Derived

OP overpoweredness unoverpowered

Adjective Entry 2

  1. Subdued by superior force.
    • Rippling back abashed before the ominous silences / Like the swift turns and starts of an overpowered fencer / Who sees before him Horror / Behind him darkness, / Shadow. - 1918 September, Stephen Vincent Benét, “The...
    • It is true that during two world wars the belligerents violated many rules of warfare which had been generally accepted in some earlier periods of history, but the fundamental purpose remained unchanged—to impose the...
    • Nani [pseudonym] identified four kinds of marriages among government officials. […] A second is that of the “overpowered husband” whose wife is dominant, which Nani considers funny because such husbands tend to behave...

Origin

From overpower + -ed.

Forms

more overpowered most overpowered

Derived

overpoweredly overpoweredness

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of overpower